The headmaster of exclusive £34,000-per-year boarding school, Gresham’s School in Norfolk, was hit with a wave of criticism when he blogged about how students lacked “grit”

Douglas Robb, whose blog features on the school’s official website, wrote children are not to blame.

The head of the 800 pupil school said: “They have been advertised to since birth; they have had credit and loans on a plate; they have been overly mollycoddled; and they have been overwhelmed by a strange combination of fictional sit-com characters, reality TV and social media stars, who paint a picture of perfection to be achieved.